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Wielding a pole to pilot a punt is a skill that is rare outside the gorgeous waterways of Oxford and Cambridge and unknown in th
Wielding a pole to pilot a punt is a skill that is rare outside the gorgeous waterways of Oxford and Cambridge and unknown in th
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2013-06-02
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Wielding a pole to pilot a punt is a skill that is rare outside the gorgeous waterways of Oxford and Cambridge and unknown in the ex-communist world. But nearly half of the 60-odd employees at Scud amore’s, Cambridge’s biggest punting rentals firm, are from Eastern Europe, chiefly Poles. The newly-arrived start off cleaning the boats; veterans of a summer or two, who have learnt to punt and chat to tourists in English, graduate to being "punt chauffeurs" on pounds 14 an hour.
Estimating the overall effect of this influx of enthusiastic low-cost labor is hard, although a recent study by Ernst & Young, an accountancy fine, suggested that without it Britain’s GDP would be 0.2% lower. In fact, nobody knows how many workers from what were once called captive nations are actually in Britain. The government’s official (but voluntary) worker registration scheme records 345,000 since Britain opened its labor market to such workers in 2004.
But, notes Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the Institute for Public Policy Research, a think tank, this disguises "huge chum". Workers may register and then leave the country. Others may not register at all. It costs pounds 70, and the advantages it offers, such as the right to claim the dole in future, may seem flimsy. It is the prospect of work, not state benefits, that attracts east Europeans to Britain.
Four other west European countries Spain, Portugal, Finland and Greece opened their labor markets on May 1st to workers from the new Europe, while France promises partial liberalization and Holland is thinking about it. But that will do little to dent Britain’s lead. A widely-spoken language and thriving networks incorporating previous immigrants still make Britain a prime destination, with Ireland close behind.
Does continuing the hit00-or-miss registration scheme make sense? The government considered scrapping it altogether on May 1st, but decided not to. One reason is that some existing formalities could come in handy if, as seems likely, the EU expands on January 1st 2007 to include Romania and Bulgaria. It has not yet been decided whether workers from these two countries, which will be the poorest in the EU, should be given free access to Britain’s job market. Mr. Sriskandarajah’s institute reckons that, if allowed, 41,000 workers are likely to come from Romania and 15,000 from Bulgaria. The government could scrap the registration scheme for Poles and the like, while keeping it for the newcomers.
The registration scheme may produce misleading figures, and it is a curious use of official time and energy at a moment when bureaucrats are too busy to deport foreign rapists. But it is a sop to public opinion, which is twitchy about Britain’s increasingly open borders.
We learn from the beginning of the passage that ______.
选项
A、punting is rarely seen along the waterways of oxford and Cambridge nowadays
B、most of the employees in the punting-rentals firm are from Eastern Europe
C、most of the veterans are the local people who can speak English as a guider to the tourists
D、the punt chauffeurs can earn 14 pounds a day
答案
A
解析
细节理解题。本题不是简单的传统的细节题,需要考生认真找到依据,透彻理解原文意思,才可以进行解题。就该题而言,A 选项可以从文章的第一句看出,这种平底船的驾驶在剑桥以外的水道是很少见的,而不是在剑桥秀少见。还有最后一句,很明显是一个小时14磅而不是一天,所以需要考生细心谨慎。
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